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Page last updated at 04:53 GMT, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 05:53 UK

UN's first World Humanitarian Day

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The United Nations is holding its first World Humanitarian Day to honour international aid workers.

Last year 122 international aid workers were killed, a death toll that was higher than that for UN peacekeeping troops.

The inaugural World Humanitarian Day falls on the sixth anniversary of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, in which 22 workers died.

Natalia Antelava reports from Baghdad.

READ MORE: UN marking first humanitarian day

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